The following Tables and Figures detail the cognitive task analysis (CTA) performed to
determine the information requirements needed to support a single operator located aboard the
futuristic Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). ...

In order to collaboratively explore an environment with a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV), an operator needs a mobile interface, which can support the operator’s divided attention. To this end, we developed the Micro Aerial ...

Planning operations across a number of domains can be considered as resource allocation problems with timing constraints. An unexplored instance of such a problem domain is the aircraft carrier flight deck, where, in current ...

In support of the vision for humans to establish a large scale, economically viable,
permanent human settlement on the Moon within the next 25 years (Space Frontier
Foundation, 2005), the next generation lunar landing ...

As UAVs become increasingly autonomous, the multiple personnel currently required to operate
a single UAV may eventually be superseded by a single operator concurrently managing
multiple UAVs. Instead of lower-level tasks ...

Human intent is an integral part of real-time path planning and re-planning, thus any decision aiding system must support human-automation interaction. The appropriate balance between humans and automation for this task ...

The lengthy period since the Apollo landings limits present-day engineers attempting to draw from the experiences of veteran Apollo engineers and astronauts in the design of a new lunar lander. In order to circumvent these ...

This report describes the conceptual design and detailed architecture of an experimental platform
developed to support investigations of novel decision and collaboration technologies for
complex, time-critical mission ...

With recent regulatory efforts to reduce restrictions placed on the operation of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) in the United States, it is likely that in the next few years, these vehicles will become commonplace in the ...

This technical report describes the concept and development of SITHE, the Systems Integration
Tool for HSI Evaluation. SITHE is a framework for selecting tools to be used in evaluating
complex technical systems in terms ...

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become increasingly autonomous, time-critical and complex single-operator systems will require advance prediction and mitigation of schedule conflicts. However, actions that
mitigate a ...

In resource allocation problems for systems with moving planning horizons and significant uncertainty, typical of supervisory control environments, it is critical that some balance of human-automation collaboration be ...

Path planning is a problem encountered in multiple domains, including unmanned vehicle control, air traffic control, and future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars. Due to the voluminous and complex nature of the ...

Network centric warfare (NCW) is a concept of operations that seeks to increase combat power
by linking battlespace entities to effectively leverage information superiority. A network centric force
must be supported by ...

In recent years, much research has focused on making possible single operator control of multiple robots. In these high workload situations, many questions arise including how many robots should be in the team, which ...

Recent studies have shown that with appropriate operator decision support
and with sufficient automation, inverting the multiple operators to
single-unmanned vehicle control paradigm is possible. These studies,
however, ...

For future systems that require one or a small team of operators to supervise a network of automated agents, automated planners are critical since they are faster than humans for path planning and resource allocation in ...